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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men formed the leaders of Chelm?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

2. What is Shmerel's title?
(a) Ox.
(b) Mistaken.
(c) Silly.
(d) Foolish.

3. What animals appear as the strange man spins around in the house?
(a) Mice.
(b) Squirrels.
(c) Rats.
(d) Gerbils.

4. What symbol keeps appearing for the strange man in Grandmother's story while he is entertaining the children?
(a) Druin.
(b) Nun.
(c) Farkel.
(d) Gimel.

5. What does Tudras want to buy with the money from the snow?
(a) Some chests to hold the snow.
(b) A goose with golden eggs.
(c) A season's worth of seed.
(d) Another harvest of snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Grandmother use to describe the children in her story?

2. Who has the idea to tell the people of Chelm to stay in their houses?

3. What is the name of the doctor who says he can cure Atzel?

4. What is Chelm full of?

5. What does the strange man in "Grandmother's Tale" lose as he entertains the children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children ask of their grandmother at the beginning of "Grandmother's Tale"?

2. Why does Atzel come to wish he were dead?

3. What does Gronam notice about the Hanukkah snow?

4. What does Atzel do on his first days in paradise, and how does he feel about this?

5. What is the rhyme at the end of "Grandmother's Tale"?

6. What did the strange man who appeared in "Grandmother's Tale" look like?

7. What does Dr. Yoetz see when he first checks on Atzel inside Kadish's house?

8. How does Atzel feel when he is told it is not time for him to go to paradise?

9. How does Atzel feel during his own funeral?

10. What causes Atzel to change his ideas while he is in paradise?

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